Best quotes by Sugata Mitra on Learning

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• ‟ Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

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• ‟ Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.

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• ‟ Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer.

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• ‟ People are adamant learning is not just looking at a Google page. But it is. Learning is looking at Google pages. What is wrong with that?

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• ‟ The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves.

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• ‟ In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

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• ‟ Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.

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